Naylor on the knowledge economy
David Naylor, the University of Toronto’s president, delivers a speech on research, innovation, and Canada’s business culture...
Paul Wells
Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or something else.
Your Toss It Up-date
We’ve come to expect a mob like this at Toss It Up on Sparks St. whenever the Maclean’s crew heads over for lunch, a...
Wells’s Rules, annotated
No. 2: If everyone in Ottawa knows something, it’s not true.
We’re just visiting, and it’s all about us
Last week’s Coyne v. Wells arrives a few days late, which means if you’re very, very good, you might get two of these things this...
Reagan’s paradise: Canada
Over at the Cato website, Chris Edwards is making sublime mischief with just about everybody’s head by arguing, persuasively, that...
Wide world of sporting chicanery
From AP (via TPM ):
The race for second-best
Cell-phone manufacturers line up for their shot at releasing an iPhone killer . Guess that’s because they have no chance of...
Snubwatch: Where did the end of the Cold War begin?
A fuss in Poland about a European Union video clip commemorating the end of the Cold War. Poland is mentioned at the beginning —...
The new Newsweek
Jon Meacham, who’s won a Pulitzer for his Andrew Jackson biography and who is, grumble grumble, younger than me, relaunches...
"Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed"
A long article about Donald Rumsfeld in GQ reveals the peculiar juxtaposition of Biblical texts on the cover of daily top-secret...